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Hi everyone, it’s been a while. Sorry to say, it’s been a lot longer of a “while” than I was hoping for. A new child in the house, flux on the job, losing the job, training for another, all has taken its toll.

But…the show must go on, and Shadow Bytes is a great creative outlet for me. I like to draw and I’ve really missed having that weekly chance to grind some graphite and slick it down in Flash.

And poor Patrick, he’s got all of this great writing that needs to be sketched out into four-panel fun.

We’ll be back! I won’t give an estimate, yet—suffice it to say I hope to be able to start drawing again soon.

Hope everyone is off to a great New Year, and maybe 2012 will be the year of the Cat… Ok, quick Googling on that one, looks like it is the year of the Dragon! Hey that’s even more awesome, besides I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Shadow say that he thinks of himself as part Dragon, perhaps on the paternal side.

Shadow Bytes will be on hold for the next month or two. We’re having a blast bringing it to you each and every week, we just celebrated our 50th strip since the official unveiling 2/15/11. But unfortunately duty calls and the litter box is full.

What? It’s a comic with a cat, that analogy totally fits.

For those of you that follow the comic regularly this may come as no surprise, but due to some other work and responsibilities, my art hand is not getting the attention it properly deserves. I hope that didn’t come off as sounding odd. It probably did. My apologies.

During the time off from postings I will be focused on building up an actual buffer to make sure that this kind of interruption doesn’t happen again and Patrick will be focused on making more epic-cool comic stories. The buffer is something I should have focused on from the comic’s birth, but I was too eager for it to begin.

We’ll keep you apprised of the comic’s status, so stay tuned and tell your friends, because when we come back, we’ll be better than ever.

It ’twas a busy weekend and it has certainly been extra busy ever since the birth of my son, whom I’ll refer to on the “internets” as Nemo. (There’s a good reason for that and it may or may not have to do with the great movie by Pixar.) We had a Meet Nemo party for close family to see him for the first time and the house was quite busy with the comings and goings of family. Add a dash of some restless nights and I’ll let you piece together the rest.

So go ahead and take that vacation into the woods, or that exotic cruise where the internet is a far and unfamiliar thing, because you won’t miss your favorite snarky cat and cool-hat-wearing Patrick.

Into the sunset goes our tie-dyed, rainbow logo trip, walking into the descending night. The shadows lengthen and become real, visceral things that go meow in the night. Shadow Bytes are here—darker and more sinister than before.

Are you prepared?

Oh. You are? Crap, I better go draw some more.

So, welcome to our new name:

If you are curious about the story of our name changes, go here to find out about the comic that was formerly ‘Super Awesome Unnamed Comic’ formerly ‘The Cat Bytes’.

We’re still making some tweaks, but you can follow the comic on twitter @TheShadowBytes on facebook and of course you can find links to follow Patrick and myself (Clifton) on the sidebar.

The latest comic, ‘High Pressure‘, includes a frame of Shadow up on top of a bookshelf. I dug through some photos to show you how art imitates life:

All cats love to climb – there’s just something about being higher/taller than all other things. What they don’t take into consideration is getting back down again, or the heart attack their humans have when they see them getting up there. In the pic above, he is looking across a gap of about 4 feet to the other bookshelf. I snapped this pic from the couch when I thought it was funny.

When he started gearing up to jump across to the other bookshelf, I jumped up to get him off of there…

You may have noticed a new logo on the website. Good eye! I know the change is subtle…

Just last week, Clifton Hill and I received a message that our name was treading over someone else’s name and they’d like us to stop doing that. After a little back and forth, we said that we would definitely change the name and went to work brainstorming new ideas. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…